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Friday, July 17, 2009

Viking ships have landed !

Today a great start to our combined project , and what fun we all had ! Sean and Nora both have detention of course for misbehaving in class !!! The girls really enjoyed making their own model longboats (recycled cardboard) , and they turned out great ! So as well as a combined project ,everyone has a longboat and a folder with theory work in it...and being the old school teacher I gave them some homework to be getting on with till next wedesday , to design a sail for a longboat ,to fill in a map of where the vikings came from and went to , and to write their full names in Rune , the Viking writing...I thought Id go easy on them , but Sadhbh asked for more (accompanied by shouts of "no" from Aideen and Caoimhe !)...we even had a small rice krispie bun "cake" and candle to celebrate before the girls went home , and we sang (to the tune of happy birthday) "Happy first combined project together to us"...and blew out the candle :0)

A good time was had by all, and Nora even treated us to new pencils...you can see mine on the neck of my top , told ya I never lost the school teacher in me !!! And during the break (the tea break for the adults) the girls put rubber snakes in Caoimhes long hair and pretended she was Medusa turning them to stone !!!! a grand day was had by all , and we have loads of other "viking" crafts ahead...Nora is going to make jewellery with kids, Sean is helping them make wooden handles for their knives , I`m doing weaving ,and clay...I don`t know who is more excited the kids or us :0) Thanks by the way girls for the aloe vera plants xx

3 comments:

tia girl, this was a great day, the girls enjoyed making the viking long ships. they were telling frank about the mice! and I told him we had detention! but it was seans fault he started it lol...sadhbh said you are a great teacher, she had her homework done first thing this morning! They cant wait for wednesday. they have planned that much i cant keep up! well done tia teacher, sean my detention buddy and aideen our homeschooling pal and not forgetting mrs mumpers! hugs and blessings keam!